Skip to main content

Jones & Barker (1793-1803)

Jones & Barker, 16 Lichfield St, Birmingham, makers of brass cabinet furniture (1793–1803). An oval brass repoussé picture frame is known with their trade label affixed. This states that they were ‘manufacturers of brass furniture, for cabinet makers & upholsterer's use’. Their products included locks, knobs, coffin furniture, oval and square picture frames and looking-glass frames, ‘ornaments and borders for rooms, in stampt, burnish’d & gilt metal, composition carved ornaments, chimney pieces etc’. [D]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.